Rumour: Pokémon Sword & Shield Might Be Compatible With Pokémon GO

This doesn't surprise me really. They've shown that they want people to be able to transfer Pokémon from GO into the main games, so I expected GO Park (or something similar) to come back.

Oh well I can just transfer all my shinies/legendaries there if this could happen

With a total of 900+ Pokémon on the way (maybe even hitting that 1000 mark) having this type of access to a good chunk of the pokédex for newly converted players is a pretty good strategy. Especially if you're the completionist type and you're just now entering the series.

I wasn't sure about this game but this makes it a day one purchase for me.

Great. Now I can get rid of all of the Suicunes, Raikous and Enteis in my collection without losing them forever.

This is wonderful! I hope it's true. I don't see any reason to not have the connectivity.

Frankly, it would be leaving money off the table not to do so. How much money I can’t say, but money nonetheless.

I seriously hope Pokémon Bank makes a comeback for Sword and Shield...

What a dumb topic. This is a headline? Let's Go was compatible with POGO. Why would it shock you for the LATEST SWITCH Pokemon game to be compatible with THE MOST DOWNLOADED GAME ON PLANET EARTH?

Shake. My. Head.

Might??

I'd be willing to bet everything I own that it will be. Was anyone even remotely questioning that it would link with Pokemon Go in the first place?

@pullmyfinger Actually, the most downloaded game on Planet Earth is Subway Surfers with well over 2 billion downloads.

'Might be'.... why wouldn't it be!?

God how i hate these articles of rumours, dataminers and hackers.

@pullmyfinger

Is everything OK?

@pullmyfinger uh, because first of all...

Let's GO is inspired for newer generations and specially for the people who plays Pokemon GO.

Sword and Shield is focused to the previous tradition as it always have been so it's a valid point to doubt if GO connectivity is possible or not.

I'm just hoping they're adding in something similar to Pokemon Bank so players who have Pokemon in the Gen 6 and Gen 7 games can transfer and use them in Gen 8.

It's not that I hate Pokemon GO, but all of the Pokemon that I have used in past games that are also precious to me are all on my Ultra Moon card and I would love to bring them into Gen 8.

I hope there is a Pokemon Bank App for Nintendo Switch so we can transfer our Pokemons from 3DS Pokemon Bank to Switch Pokemon Bank.

And i really hope there is an Event that we have a chance again to get Very Rare Pokemons like Archeus, Darkrai, Mew, etc.

@PBandSmelly I enjoyed it a lot to be honest. I might go for a second round.

If they do that and link to Pokemon Let`s Go, Everyone, I mean, Everyone will have a party of Shiny pokemon. Lets go made it too easy. At least for me it lost it`s charm.. But hey, to each their own.

I'd be more surprised if they didn't include some type of functionality. I'm not a Pokemon Go fan but I guess this is a neat rumor for those who are.

Seems cool but my only hope is that we are able to transfer pokemon from ultra sun and moon aswell as sun and moon

It'll probably be similar to the Go Park functionality in Let's Go, where you can send Pokémon one-way from mobile to Switch.

I really want to be able to send my shiny Let's Go Pokémon over to Sword/Shield as some of them have later-gen evolutions, and I see no point in training them up in Let's Go if they are never going to be able to fulfill their potential (especially my shiny Onix).

I was more hoping it would be compatible with LETS Go. That would give me a reason to get Let's Go and trade over all the gen 1 mons, or something. As it stands I'm sleeping on Let's go.

My son and iweee discussing this yesterday, the ability to transfer any Pokemon to S&S would be most welcome, but from the beginning at the expense of them being level 1 when you do so.

Smart strategy, but I am scared from what it might mean on the games

Makes sense, but that 100% means more GO-exclusive pokemon and I'm very much not looking forward to this at all.

Might just be me but wouldn't this spoil the game somewhat if instead of tracking down Pokemon you can just easily transfer them with no effort? Not something that affects me as I deleted Pokemon Go a long time ago now and wont be returning

I would certainly expect it to be. Didn't buy that ball just for Lets Go.

Pokemon Go shinies in Sword and Shield you say?

Yes it will be and it wouldn't surprise me at all if the new Animal Crossing is compatible with the phone version too.

I would imagine there will be. But you never know with this series.

@carlos82 Might be a case like previous series where tranfering from previous gens is a function that's locked until you complete up to a certain point of the game.

@BugInATub I think it might end up a given that pokemon bank will be available during gen 8 if not literally included for free(ish) for nintendo online services subscribers.

At least it's my general idea.

And I do expect some form of GO government connectivity that could perhaps be used to convert a GO/Let'sGo pokemon into the traditional format of core games(maybe at a fixed level/moves? Perhaps with bonus like higher hidden ability chances/etc) or alternatively a more limited bonus such might be just a special GO-related pokemon(the currently GO-exclusive Meltans, for example?) or trainer costume?

@Tyranexx tbh I would not be surprised if the connectivity was even just that; not necessarily transferring entire collections of GO/Let's Go pokemons(though conversion transfer could remain a possibility) but certainly getting "link rewards" such as an exclusive Meltan in Sword/Shield if you link S/W with GO.

Perhaps even a reccuring event thing perhaps to get synergy between Pokemon GO events and Sword & Shield events

Right... Whatever can I just get a way to transfer my 3ds mons please?

I don't care either way.

'I am a sleeping Snorlax'

Now if only Pokemon Go would make their battle system match the games more people might actually want to play it so we aren't getting hand cramps by just tap tap tap tap tap tap. But at the same time sword and shield should match pokemon go and lets go and have pokemon show up in the world. Always so close yet so far with Pokemon.

Please dont ruin a core game with crappy go... that goes for all 3

It'd be pretty silly to NOT have some form of connection with GO, but let's keep it to a minimum, eh.

would enjoy to see some lets go compatibility but my main hope is that its bank compatible (though highly likely)

@OorWullie that's a lie. But keep trying.

@Franklin Yea, thanks for asking. HBU?

@StarViruZ what a SILLY comment. Pokemon for decades is all about portable, from GameBoy, to DS, to 3DS, to Switch. And then to Pokemon Go on the phone. Your comment is hilarious! Maybe even more so than this article!

Please no, I don't play GO or have any interest in it. I still don't have meltan in Lets Go. If they do make GO exclusives I hope they at least create a trade database like they have for the ds games so people who don't want to play and spend money on GO have a chance to fill the national pokedex. A way to trade from the DS would be great too as I have the national dex full on my Ultramoon game.

@pullmyfinger No, it's fact and you could easily find out for yourself by doing a simple Google search. It's not even close between Subway Surfers and Pokémon Go.

@OorWullie no point arguing with stupid they will just bring you down to their level

Cool for people who like Pokemon go, but not a feature I'll ever use.

Of course there will be some sort of compatability. It's too good to pass up the kind of cross-marketing both games will get out of doing so. And not to mention GameFreak are well aware that people have a range of pokemon from the main series as well as Pokemon Go that people will have bonded with. It makes sense to give people the chance to play with them in the newest pokemon game thats going to introduce a new region and upwards of 800+ total to the IP.

....which in turn means it’s compatible with Pokémon Let’s Go, right?

And doe's that mean the pokeball controller work's?

This is so dumb. Why would it be compatible with Go? Generation 5 Pokemon aren't even in Pokemon Go yet so why would a brand new generation be compatible with the app? It's clear that older gen Pokemon will be in the game and Go would make it too easy to get those old gen Pokemon instead of finding them yourself. Let's Go was compatible because it was a game to bring in those newcomers including the Go fans. There is no reason why Sword/Shield should be compatible with the app. I doubt this is true and I hope that it isn't.

This isn’t for Sword and Shield. This is because they’re making Let’s Go a new spinoff and its sequel will actually be based around mystic vs valor vs instinct.

I won't support Pokemon the more they support go.

@Ludovsky
I ended up getting the answer to my question. They recently announced Pokemon HOME which is supposed to be a cloud service for Switch, iOS, and Android. They said it can be used with Pokemon Bank, GO and Let's Go. Sadly it won't be releasing until early 2020. They also said that you can put Pokemon from the DS games in Bank which can be accessed by HOME and can be transferred to Sword/Shield.

As for Pokemon GO connectivity, I honestly don't care. If they do end up adding it, that's not an issue for me as long as I'm not forced to use it.